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The 53 pages that link to Great Purge, each with the reason it gives.

• Joseph StalinBroader topic: It eliminated perceived rivals and terrorized officials and citizens under Stalin.

• StalinismBroader topic: The purge eliminated perceived rivals and spread fear through the party, military, and society.

• Nikolai BukharinBroader topic: Bukharin’s arrest, show trial, and execution formed part of the purge of former Bolshevik leaders.

• Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionBroader topic: The leadership authorized and intensified purges that reached party officials, military officers, and ordinary people.

• Political purgeBroader topic: It is a major example of a purge aimed at party members, officials, military officers, and ordinary citizens.

• Rehabilitation in the Soviet UnionBroader topic: Its victims formed a major share of those considered for post-Stalin rehabilitation.

• Darkness at NoonBroader topic: The purges provide the historical setting for Rubashov’s arrest and interrogation.

• Lev KamenevBroader topic: Kamenev was arrested, tried, and executed during its escalating campaign against former Bolsheviks.

• Robert ConquestBroader topic: It is the principal episode reconstructed in The Great Terror.

• History of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionBroader topic: The purge destroyed party cadres and made political terror an instrument of rule.

• Mass killings under communist statesBroader topic: It exemplifies mass execution and terror directed by a communist state.